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vil's Building. 



BY. / 

JARROTT SMITH, 

AUTHOR. 



INDIANAPOLIS : 

JOS. RATTI, PRINTER AND BINDER. 
1897. 



The Library 

OF CONGKESg 

WASHINOTOtf 



Copyrighted. 18 ( .>7. by Jarrott Smith, 
Indianapolis, Ind. 



PREFACE. 



The object of the writer of this book is to let 
the reader see the greatness of the Devil as well as 
the greatness of God. Almost every person who 
reads, has read about the greatness of God and the 
great work that is now being carried on by his 
people, and every person can see the great churches 
that have been erected by God's people. But few T 
persons have ever thought of the greatness of the 
Devil and the great work that he and his followers 
are doing. The Devil's work is universal, for the 
Devil and his followers are erecting a very great 
building — great not for goodness, but great because 
it covers the entire face of the earth. All persons 
who have a mind to think have the right to think 
for themselves and judge according to their own 
thoughts. 



THE CREATION OF ' vN AND WOMAN, 



CHAPTER I. 



When this book you read, 

In this book you will see 
This building was started 

By a party of three. 

When God created the Heavens and the earth, 
he said nothing about creating Hell, as that was 
not necessary, because there was no sin on earth at 
that time. Sin creates Hell. Where there is no 
sin there is no Hell. God proceeded to create man 
and woman. (See 1st Genesis, 27th verse.) God 
created man in his own image — in the image of 
God created he him — male and female created he 
them — and after God had created man and woman, 
he placed them in the Garden of Eden (see 2d 
Genesis, 15th verse); and after God had placed 
them in the garden he saw it was necessary to 
make a law to govern them by. So God said to 
Adam, "Thou shalt not eat fruit from the tree of 
knowledge of good and evil;" and the penalty for 
violating God's law is death (see 17th verse of 2d 



THE DEVIL AT WAR IN HEAVEN. 



chapter of Genesis); "for the day ye eat thereof 
you shall surely die." All went well in the Garden 
of Eden, but trouble began in Heaven. The Devil 
was then an angel in Heaven, and perhaps had the 
highest honor of any other angel in Heaven, but 
he was not satisfied at that, for he thought he was 
greater than God, and got jealous of the great 
things God was doing. So he goes through Heaven 
and gets together angels — a plenty to start a rebel- 
lion in Heaven, which he did, and was defeated, 
and he and his angels were cast out of Heaven to 
the earth (see 12th chapter of Revelations, 7th 
verse ) 



CHAPTER II. 



"And there was war in Heaven: Michael 
and his angels fought against the dragon and his 
angels." The 9th verse reads: "And the great 
dragon was cast out to the earth — that old serpent 
called the Devil and Satan — and his angels were 
cast out with him" and placed in a pit called the 
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THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS MAKE THEIR PLANS. 



bottomless pit of the earth, and called the pit hell. 
While in the pit the Devil said to his angels, "We 
must have revenge; God built the Heavens and cast 
us out of Heaven to the earth; now we will build 
up Hell on the earth; this pit that we are in we 
will call it our office, and while we are in here we 
will lay our plans for the building called Hell." 
And the Devil said to his angels, "Just what God 
tells the people to do, we will tell them not to do, 
and what God tells the people not to do, we will 
tell them to do." The pit where the Devil and his 
angels were put was not prepared for all of those 
who disobey the law of God and expire, but it was 
just prepared for the Devil and his angels, and they 
were only kept there for a short while and then let 
go. This earth, where all of the crimes of im- 
morality are committed, will eventually be called 
Hell itself, and every person who disobeys the law 
of God is helping the Devil to build up Hell. 
All persons who do wickedly are digging a pit for 
th eir own souls to fall into. 



SONG OF THE DEVIL AFTER HIS FIGHT IX HEAVEN. 



CHAPTER III. 



I had a great fight 

In Heaven last night, 

And got defeated, you know; 

But all will be right 

When 1 finish my flight 

'Way down to the earth below. 

But when I do alight, 

Will be bound awful tight 

And into a pit be thrown. 

But if ever I get out, 

I will take a straight route 

To the Garden of Eden, alone. 



THE DEVIL'S TRIP TO THE GARDEN OF EDEN. 

After the Devil and his angels bad laid their 
plans for the great building of sin called Hell, the 
Devil said to his angels, "Stay here in the pit for 
awhile and I will go to the Garden of Eden and 
there lay the foundation of sin, the building called 
Hell." So the devil left the pit for the Garden of 
Eden alone. 

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THE DEVIL AT THE GARDEN OF EDEN. 



CHAPTER IV, 



When the Devil did arrive at the garden, he 
went to Eve: the woman first, for he knew that she 
was weak in nature and he would have no trouble 
to employ her to work on the building called Hell. 
By getting her to do just what God had told her 
not to do (see Genesis, 3d chapter, 4th and 5th 
verses) Eve hired herself out to the Devil when 
she ate of the fruit which God had told her not to 
eat. The Devil knew he had her employed when 
he saw her eat the fruit and he knew that he would 
have no trouble to get the man after he had em- 
ployed the woman. So he told Eve to give the 
fruit to Adam, which she did. (See 6th verse.) 
Adam hired himself out to the Devil to help build 
Hell with sin when he ate the fruit the woman gave 
him. The Devil saw he had accomplished his pur- 
pose, so he left the garden and went back to the 
pit and told what he did. 

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THE DEVIL CLAIMS THE EARTH. 



CHAPTER V. 



The Devil said to his angels, "The earth ie 
mine and I will demand the service of every man 
and woman on the face of the earth to work on the 
building called Hell." So the Devil and his angels 
made a start to build up crimes of iniquity, or the 
building called Hell. So the Devil and his angels 
are all at work: that is the reason when we would 
do good, evil is always at hand, or the Devil or his 
angels are always putting evil in our way. That is 
the reason that God said, "woe unto the inhabitors 
of the earth, for the Devil is with you." (See 12th 
chapter of Revelations, 12th verse.) That is why 
Job said the earth is given unto the hands of the 
wicked. (Job, 9th chapter, 24th verse.) The 
Devil claims that we are living on his property. 
We should this day lay down our sins, leave them 
behind and start for Heaven. We should this day 

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THE TWO GREAT PROMISES 



quit working for the Devil and go to work for God. 
Your wages for working for the Devil on the build- 
ing called Hell is death and destruction, for the 
wages of sin is death. God wants your service and 
he has promised all of those who work for him 
life eternal, a mansion in Heaven. Whoever you 
work for, you expect your pay from that person. 
Then if you work for the Devil, you may expect 
your pay from him. But if you work for God, he 
will pay you and pay you well. He will give you 
a warranty deed to his mansion. Quit claims with 
the Devil to-day and start with God's army for 
Heaven. Don't wait for to-morrow. 



Hark! the voice of Jesus calls you. 
Will you come and work to-day? 
Let him hear you quickly saying, 
Here am I, take me, take me. 



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THE DEVIL EMPLOYS CAIN. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Now when the face of the earth began to mul- 
tiply, the Devil and his angels began to employ all 
whom they could, to work on the building called 
Hell. They went to Cain and Abel, the first two 
children born, and the Devil employed Cain to lay 
the corner-stone to the building called Hell. Cain 
went to work for the Devil when he killed his 
brother. (See 4th chapter Genesis, 8th verse.) 
The Devil went next to Pharaoh and there em- 
ployed him to go to work on the building called 
Hell by having him enslave all of the children 
of Israel. The Devil knew that God would be dis- 
pleased at that, and God was displeased at Pharaoh 
and sent all manner of afflictions upon him to make 
him let the children of Israel go; but the Devil 
told Pharaoh to hold on to the children of Israel, 
and he did. Then God told Moses to take the 
children of Israel across the sea, and he did. So 

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THE DEVIL'S ARMY ATTEMPTS TO CROSS THE SEA. 



the Devil told Pharaoh to take his army across the 
sea also, and Pharaoh made an attempt to do so 
but he failed in his attempt, (See 14th chapter 
Exodus.) "And Moses stretched forth over the sea 
and the sea returned to his strength, and the Egyp- 
tians fled against it and the Lord overthrew the 
Egyptians in the midst of the sea and the waters 
returned and covered them up. Their chariots and 
the horsemen and of all the host of Pharaoh that 
came into the sea after them there remained not so 
much as one of them. Thus you can see that God 
was determined to stop the work of the Devil there, 
and God is yet determined to forever stop the work 
of the Devil and his host; but the Devil and his 
angels go on employing whoever they can to work 
on the building called Hell. They never stop from 
defeat at one place, but go elsewhere. 



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THE DEVIL EMPLOYES .TDK AH. 



CHAPTER VII. 



The Devil next went to employ Jonah. He 
knew God had told Jonah to go to Ninevah and 
tell the people to stop work on the building called 
Hell; so he made it his business to see Jonah. Be- 
fore he started the Devil got there and employed 
Jonah to go to Tarshish. Jonah hired himself out 
to the Devil and took a ship to go where the Devil 
told him, contrary to what God had told him to do. 
(See 1st chapter of Jonah). God saw what the 
Devil had done and he was very much displeased 
at Jonah and caused a great storm on the sea and 
had Jonah cast overboard into the sea. The sea 
was calm and God had a large fish prepared to 
bring Jonah back to dry land again, so that Jonah 
might do as he had ordered him to do. When 
Jonah got back to dry land again he was perfectly 
willing to go to Ninevah, whereGod had told him to 
go, and tell the people to stop work for the Devil. 

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THE DEVIL EMPLOYS BALAAM. 



This same Devil goes after Balaam to work 
upon the building called Hell. Balaam was a very 
great man. He was a man that God placed a great 
deal of confidence in. He was a man that God 
thought he could trust for almost anything; but yet 
he could not be trusted, but hired himself out to the 
Devil by doing just what God told him not to do. 
The Devil told the King of Moab to go and get Ba- 
laam to go to Egypt and curse a certain people and 
that great king, a very great man. yet an employe 
of the Devil, did as the Devil had told him to do. 
He employed Balaam to go to Egypt and curse the 
people. (See Numbers, 22d chapter.) Balaam 
knew that he was disobeying God's orders, but the 
Devil had control of him. God saw the job the 
Devil had put up and his anger was kindled and he 
went and told Balaam not to go, but Balaam made 
an attempt to go. Then the Lord God sent an angel 
and stopped Balaam. 



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DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS AT SODOM AND GOMORRAH. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



The Devil and his angels went to the cities of 
Sodom and Gomorrah and there they employed 
nearly every person in the city to work on the 
building called Hell, with their crimes of iniquity. 
And God saw that the Devil and his angels had 
employed almost every person in the city to work 
on the building called Hell, so God concluded to 
destroy the city. But before destroying the city 
God thought he would search the city and if enough 
persons could be found that were not working for 
the Devil, he would spare the city. Abraham did 
not want to see the city destroyed. He asked God 
if he found fifty people who were not working for 
the Devil, would he spare the city? God said he 
would spare the city for the sake of fifty, but they 
could not be found. Then Abraham asked God if 
he found forty-five, would he spare the city 9 God 
said he would spare the city for the sake of forty- 
five, but that number could not be found. God 
said he would spare the city for forty, or for thirty, 
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THE DEVIL TEMPTS LOT S WIFE. 



or for twenty; said be would spare the city if ten 
could be found that were not working for the Devil 
on the building called Hell, but ten could not be 
found. Then God said, I will destroy the city, 
Then Abraham left the city and God sent two 
angels to tell Lot to take his wife and two daughters 
and get out of the city and not look back. (Read 
the 18th and 10th chapters of Genesis.) Lot took 
his wife and two daughters and started from the 
city. The Devil saw them going from the city and 
rfe knew that God told them not to look back, and 
he knew the weakness of the woman just as he 
knew the weakness of the woman in the Garden of 
Eden, and said to his angels, "I will tempt the 
woman just as I did in the Garden of Eden." So 
the Devil stepped up to Lot's wife and said to her, 
"Look back at the burning city." The woman 
could not resist the temptation and looked back at 
the burning city and became a pillar of salt. 



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THE BOY ON THE LADDER. 



CHAPTER IX. 



When God sets your soul free from the hands of 
the Devil he wants you to go on heavenward and 
not look back; if you look back you are in much 
danger of losing your eoul. In the city of New 
York, once upon a time there were men at work on 
top of a building and they had a ladder for which 
to go up and down on; a boy came along and saw 
the ladder there and thought he would climb up to 
where the men were at work; the boy started up 
the ladder and when he had gone half way up, he 
looked down at the ground, and his head became 
dizzy and he was about to fall. But the men at 
work looked down at the boy and saw he was about 
to fall from the ladder, so they called to him to 
look up. The boy looked up at the men and they 
said, "now climb the ladder." The boy started to 
climb again and went on up to the top of the build- 
ing. Jacob dreamt that he saw a ladder that 
reached from earth to Heaven and angels were as- 
cending and descending upon it. (See 28th chapter 

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THE DEVIL IS EVERYWHERE. 



Genesis, 12th verse.) Many persons have started 
to climb Jacob's ladder and have gone halfway up, 
but are now looking down. Th eir heads have be- 
come dizzy; they are about to fall into the hands 
of the Devil. Jesus is looking down at them; he 
sees they are about to fall and is calling to them to 
look up. Now climb. The Devil and his angels 
are everywhere. He is at your bedside when you 
are suffering great pain. He is at your bedside 
when you are dying, and may cause you to say, " I 
wonder shall I ever reach heaven?" He went to 
the thief while he was hanging upon the cross and 
said to him, "I have got your soul, sure," but the 
thief knew that Jesus was hanging on the cross on 
the other side of him and he called on Jesus to 
take him out of the hands of the Devil, by saying, 
"Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy 
kingdom. Jesus at that moment took him out of the 
hands of the Devil, by telling him, "This day shalt 
thou be with me in paradise." (See Luke, 23d 
chapter, 42d and 43d verses.) 



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THE DEVIL'S BUILDING DESTROYED. 



CHAPTER X. 



The Devil and his angele carried on this work 
with such rapidness that God looked down at the 
earth and saw that the Devil and his angels had 
the building called Hell so near complete that it 
would be necessary to destroy their work and all of 
the people working for them. God sent a message 
to Noah and told him to tell the people that they 
must stop working for the Devil on the building 
called Hell, for he was going to destroy the Devil's 
building and all of his people. Noah warned the 
people to stop working for the Devil, but the people 
would not take warning, for the Devil told them 
that it was not so. He told the people that God 
could not destroy the building. God saw that the 
people would not stop working for the Devil; then 
he told Noah to build an ark for a place of safety 
for himself and family, which Noah did; then God 
caused the earth to be flooded and destroyed every 
living creature on the face of the earth, except 
those that took refuge in the ark. (Read 6th chap- 
ter of Genesis.) 

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THE DEVIL AT THE CITY OF BABEL. 



God destroyed the Devil's building of sin, but 
he did not destroy the foundation. When he left 
Noah and his family he left the foundation of the 
building called Hell; and when the waters had 
abated and the face of the earth had again been 
multiplied, the Devil and his angels began to em- 
ploy people to again build up the building called 
Hell. They went to the city of Babel and there 
they employed all of the people to work on the 
building called Hell by having them attempt to 
build a tower to reach the heavens. The Devil 
knew that it would displease God for the people to 
attempt to do such a thing as that, but that is why 
he employed them to do it. God looked down and 
saw the work that the people were doing on the 
tower, and to stop them from building it any higher 
God confounded their languages, so that they 
could not understand each other, as you may see 
by reading the 11th chapter of Genesis. It is ab- 
solutely true that the foundation of sin is the foun- 
dation of Hell. 



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SOMETHING FOR ALL TO DO. 



CHAPTER XI. 



It is always harder to carry a burden up hill than 
it is to carry it down hill. That is why it is so 
much easier to work for the Devil than it is to work 
for God, for those who work for the Devil are cer- 
tainly going down hill and those who work for God 
are carrying their burdens up hill. Jesus showed 
the world of people that they had an up-hill job to 
work for God by carrying the burden of our sins up 
Mount Calvary, and almost broke down under the 
weight of them. There is something for all who 
join God's army to do. God wants you to help rescue 
the perishing, for they are many. Many are break- 
ing down under the burdens of afflictions, many 
with burdens of trouble. God wants you to throw 
out your life line and rescue some one that is sink- 
ing. Go to the police court and there you will see 
those that are sinking. There you will see many 
frowsy-looking men with unclean faces; many faded- 
looking women, most of them with swollen faces 
and tears flowing down their cheeks, the usual 
daily grind of perfunctory testimony, and in the 

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PEACE AND GOOD WILL TO ALL MANKIND. 



prisoners' dock a number of wretched-looking indi- 
viduals with black eyes, bloody noses and broken 
pates Many stories are told to the police judge; 
stories of fighting, of swearing, of foul language 
and foul blows, hatred and enmity. These are they 
that are sinking in sin. God wants you to help 
rescue them. Don't point the finger of scorn at 
them, but throw out your life line and save them, 
if possible. Give them a prayer book and tell them 
that God wants peace, good will to all mankind. 
If you do that then you are discharging your duty 
as a servant of God. God wants you to go to the 
home for the friendless and speak a word of en- 
couragement to them. Go to the hospital, where 
many are broken down under the weight of afflic- 
tion and speak a word of encouragement to them. 
God wants you to go to the heathen and help save 
them. You don't have to go to Africa or China to 
find them, for you can find them at your door. God 
wants you to work where the Devil's army is busy. 
One soul taken out of the hands of the Devil is 
worth one thousand that are already out of his 
hands. 



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WHAT THE DEVIL WANTS HIS SERVANTS TO DO. 



CHAPTER XII. 



The Devil has plenty of work for his servants. 
He is glad to see them steal; he is glad to eee 
them murder; he rejoices to see them at the gam- 
bler's table. See the 9th chapter of Jeremiah, 
which reads thus: "Oh, that I had in the wilder- 
ness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might 
leave my people and go from them, for they be all 
adulterous and an assembly of treacherous men, 
and they bend their tongues like their bow for lies; 
but they are not valiant for the truth upon the 
earth, for they proceed from evil to evil and they 
know not me," saith the Lord. The Devil wants his 
servants to burn others at the stake. If they plead 
for mercy, the Devil says "have no mercy on them." 
The reason why the Devil makes such rapid pro- 
gress is because his army is well organized. He 
has sentinels out that keep guard and they invite 
you to all of the great attractions of the world, like 
the spider invites the fly into his web and holds 
him fast, and when the Devil gets one tangled up 
in sin it is a hard matter to get loose. 

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THE CHURCH OF GOD DIVIDED. 



God's servants of his army are divided and if 
they battle against the Devil's army they must tear 
down their thick walls of division and stand united 
in one band of christian love. A wolf knows when 
he gets a flock of sheep divided it is an easy matter 
to capture one of them; so does the Devil know 
when he gets God's army divided it is an easy mat- 
ter to catch some of the flock. When one leaves 
the Devil's army and joins the church of God's 
army, the Devil and his angels work very hard to 
get that one back again. They torment him day 
and night until they get him to leave the church. 
But when one leaves God's army and joins the 
Devil's army they take their names off the church 
book and say all manner of evil things about 
them. The church of God should not do that. 
They should hunt up the lost sheep and make him 
or her welcome — when they are found — back in the 
army again. A good christian will strive hard to 
make others happy as well as themselves. 



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THE PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON, 



CHAPTER XIII. 



The prodigal son (Luke, 15th chapter.) A cer- 
tain man had two sons and one of them asked his 
father to give him his portion of his wealth that 
was due him. His father gave it to him and after 
he got his portion of his father's wealth, he went 
off to another country and while there he lived a 
riotous life and lost all his money, and a famine 
came in that land and he came to want. A citizen 
of the country employed him to feed swine in his 
lield and the young man got hungry while there 
and he said, "I perish with hunger and 1 will arise 
and go to my father" and he did go to his father's, 
and the father received him with great joy and 
said, "Let us eat and be merry, for this, my son. 
was dead and is now alive, was lost and is now 
found." Many have left the church of God and have 
gone out into the world. The Devil and his angels 
have got them employed feeding others on crimes 
of immorality and they are now hungering and 
thirsting after righteousness. They should now 
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THE DEVIL AND JOB. 



say, "I will arise and go back to my church," and 
the people of God's army should welcome them 
back with great joy and should all join right hands 
and sing this song: 

Though I forget him and wander away, 
Kindly he follows wherever I stray. 
Back to his loving arms then will I -flee, 
Oh* what a wonder that Jesus loves me. 

Those people who strive hard to serve God right 
and whose purpose is to be honest in all of their 
dealings, the Devil makes a determined effort to get 
them to do wrong. What the Devil hates the most 
is to see you do right and he will do to you just 
what he did to Job. Although Job was a man 
who strived hard to do right, he was a man that 
loved the Lord God with all his soul, with all his 
mind, with all his heart. He was a man that God 
considered greater than any other man on earth 
and he was a man that the Devil worked harder to 
employ than any other man on earth, for he went 
before the Lord and lied on Job. 



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SATAN BEFORE THE LORD. 



You may see by reading 1st chapter of Job, 
which reads thus: "There was a day when the sons 
of God came to present themselves before the Lord 
and Satan came also among them to present himself 
before the Lord, and the Lord said unto Satan, 'from 
whence comest thou ? ' and Satan answered the Lord 
and said, 1 from going to and fro in the earth and 
from walking up and down in it,' and the Lord 
said unto Satan, 'hast thou considered my servant 
Job that there is none like him in the earth, a per- 
fect and upright man, one that feareth God and es- 
cheweth evil ?' but Satan told God that Job did not 
fear him, though he be God." (See 9th verse, 1st 
chapter of Job). Job was very rich ; he had a 
great many cattle and property. So the Devil told 
God if he would destroy Job's cattle and property, 
Job would curse him to his face. Then God told 
Satan that all Job had was in his hands, but he 
must not harm Job in person. The Devil, then, 
in order to make Job leave God's army and join his 



THE DEVIL BEFORE THE LORD AGAIN, 



army, had all of Job's cattle and property de- 
stroyed, but Job stood firm and held on to his in- 
tegrity and served the Lord. God was well pleased 
at the firm stand Job took against the Devil, but 
the Djvil still believed that he could yet make Job 
curse God and again he went and presented himself 
to God (See Job, 2d chapter), and God asked the 
Devil if he had yet considered his servant Job, that 
there is none like him in the earth. The Devil 
then answered God and said if he would bring 
great afflictions upon Job, he would curse him to 
his face. God then told the Devil that Job was in 
his hands, he could bring great afflictions upon Job, 
but to spare his life. The Devil then brought 
great afflictions upon Job and caused him to weep, 
and caused him to mourn, and caused him to lose 
his home, but Job still served the Lord. The 
Devil then had one more course to pursue He 
went to Job's wife and told her to tell Job to curse 
God. He knew it was an easy matter to persuade 
her to do wrong, as it was for him to persuade the 



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JOB'S WIFE TELLS HIM TO CURSE GOD. 



woman in the Garden of Eden to do wrong. 
Whenever the Devil has a hard case on his hands, 
like Job's, he always gets a woman into it. Job's 
wife did as the Devil commanded her. She laid 
down her claim on integrity. She laid down her 
claim on righteousness and said to Job, "curse God 
and die." (See 9th verse, 2d chapter of Job ) But 
Job could not see what he would gain by cursing 
God, and he said to his wife, " thou speakest as a 
foolish woman speaketh. What, shall we receive 
good at the hands of God and shall we not receive 
evil?" Although the afflictions of Job were great, 
he loved the Lord and would not curse him, but 
cursed the day of his birth. The Devil worked 
hard to employ Job, but Job clung to the rock like 
the cedar trees of Lebanon. The cedar trees of 
Lebanon grow in the clifts among the rocks and 
their roots grow around and cling fast to the rocks 
and the trees grow to be of a great height and when 
a great storm comes against them, they bend over 
until their tops almost touch the ground, but when 



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THE GREAT BATTLE IN THE WOODS OF EPHRIAM. 



the storm is over and the sun shines upon them, 
they straighten up again and appear as though the 
storm had never touched them. If you are a true 
servant of God, your afflictions may be great Great 
storms of trouble may come upon you, but cling to 
the rock like the cedar trees of Lebanon and when 
the storm is over and the light of Jesus shines upon 
you, then you can straighten up and appear as 
though the storm had never touched, for Jesus 
said, "I am the light of the world." 



CHAPTER XIV. 



At the great battle between King David's army 
and the people of Israel, in the woods of Ephraim, 
where twenty thousand people were slain, King 
David instructed his army to take care of his son 
Absalom, for Absalom was much loved by his 
father, but the young man Absalom was slain and 
when a messenger carried the news of the battle to 
King David, his father, he asked the messenger, "Is 
the young man Absalom safe?" and when he was in- 
formed that Absalom was slain, he wept bitterly 
and cried out, "Oh, Absalom! my son, my son !" 
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SEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK. 



(See. 2d Samuel, 18th and 19th verses.) A great 
battle is now on between God's army and the Devil's 
army. Sons and daughters have left their fathers and 
mothers and have gone on the battlefield, some for 
God and some for the Devil's army. The prayers 
of iniquity are being sent up by fathers and 
mothers: " Is my son safe? Is my daughter safe?" 
The answer will be given when the building called 
Hell is finished and the Devil surrenders the earth 
to Jesus. Then awful will be the cry when the 
answer is given, your son is lost; your daughter is 
lost. Some poor father, some poor mother, will 
weep like King David wept when he said, "Oh, Ab- 
salom ! my son, my son !" Join God's army to-day, 
forto-morrow is in eternity. Jesussaid, "Behold, I 
stand at the door and knock." While Jesus 
knocks at your heart, remember the Devil knocks 
there also; be careful which you let in. If you are 
in doubt — like doubting Thomas — your conscience 
tells you: "Behold his bleeding hands, Behold his 
bleeding thigh." David said, "God gives a banner 



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GREAT MEN NOT ALWAYS WISE. 



to those that fear him and serve him (See Psalms, 
60th chapter, 4th verse.) Then open your heart and 
let Jesus in, and get your banner and go out in the 
field fighting for Jesus and hold up the banner of 
the christian war. 



CHAPTER XV. 



(Job, 28th chapter, 12th verse and 32d chapter, 
9th verse.) Where can wisdom be found, and 
where is the place of understanding? Great men 
are not always wise, neither do the aged understand 
judgment. Nebuchadnezzar, the great King of Ba- 
bylon, was a very great man, yet he was not 
wise, because he was employed by the Devil to work 
on the building called Hell. (See 3d chapter of 
Daniel.) He being King over a great many people, 
the Devil made him captain-general of his army. 
Nebuchadnezzar undertook to compel all the people 
of Babylon to work for the Devil by worship- 
ing the Devil's idle gods, but Shadrach, Me- 
shach and Abednego, servants of the true and liv- 
ing God, would not obey the King's orders. Certain 
Chaldeans came to the King and told him that Shad- 

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THE FEAST OF KING AHASUERUS AND HIS WIFE. 



racb, Meshach and Abednego would not worship 
idle gods, but worshipped the true and living God. 
The King, after being informed of those three men 
not obeying his orders, got raging mad and had 
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego placed in a fur- 
nace of fire, but God sent an angel that stood in 
the furnace with them and the fire did them no 
harm, and God proved to Nebuchadnezzar that he 
was greater than the Devil, for God caused King 
Nebuchadnezzar to come down off his high perch 
and eat grass like an ox, and when the King came to 
himself again he served God all the rest of his days. 
King Ahasuerus was a great man, but he was not 
wise, because he was employed by the Devil, as 
you may see by reading the 1st chapter of Esther. 
This King, being a very great man, gave a recep- 
tion and great feast to all of his princes and noble- 
men and all drank wine according to every man's 
pleasure; and his wife, Queen Vashti, gave a recep- 
tion to all of the ladies, and after the feast was over 



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KING ASKED HIS WIFE TO APPEAR BEFORE PRINCES 



King Ahasuerus asked his servants to escort the 
Queen, bis wife, into his apartments in a nude man- 
ner, that she might show her beauty to all of the 
noblemen and princes, for she was beautiful to look 
at. Although it meant death to any person who 
refused to obey the King's orders, this great and 
wise woman refused to comply with the King's or- 
ders and would not go before those men to be 
looked at in that kind of a manner. All the 
women of to-day ought to take a lesson from Queen 
Vashti, who proved to all the ladies of that land 
her true greatness, her virtue, her integrity, her 
love for God and all womankind by refusing to 
obey the King's orders The King, being very an- 
gry at his wife refusing to obey his orders, issued a 
proclamation putting aside his wife and chose Es- 
ther for his wife: but Queen Vashti learned the 
King a lesson that he never forgot and never did 
he ask Queen Esther to appear before princes and 
noblemen like he did Queen Vashti. 



GREAT MEN OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



In this, our nineteenth century, there are some 
great men, but not wise. Thomas Paine was a 
great man, but not wise, because he was an agent 
for the Devil. Robert Ingersoll is a great man, but 
not wise, for the Devil has him employed to rebel 
against God with all his mind, with all his soul, 
with all hi6 heart. Jefferson Davis was a great 
man. but not wise, for the Devil had him employed 
to lead the Southern Confederacy, and cause the 
bloodiest war ever known in America by his at- 
tempt to extend slavery and keep the black man 
enslaved. When Jesus raised Lazarus from the 
dead, Lazarus came out of his grave bound in his 
grave clothes. Jesus said to those standing around, 
"Loose him and let him go " Abraham Lincoln, 
that great and wise man appointed by God to free 
the black man, said to Jefferson Davis, when the 
war was over, "Loose the black man and let him 
go." The black man got loose and joined in the 
race. Two men were in a race — a white man and 
a red man. The white man was in the lead. The 



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0 MY LORD, WHAT ARE THESE? 



red man looked back and saw a black man coming. 
The red man said to the white man, "What man is 
that coming 60 fast?" The white man said, " That 
is a black man that has entered this race." The 
black man has passed the red man and it is puzzling 
the white man what to do to keep the black man 
from winning the race. (See the 1st chapter of 
Zechariah, beginning at the 8th verse.) "I saw by 
night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, 
and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in 
the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, 
speckled, and white. Then said I, 0 my Lord, 
what are these? And the angel that talked with 
me said unto me, I will show thee what these be. 
And the man that stood among the myrtle trees 
answered and said, These are they whom the Lord 
hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth." 
Thus you see the white horse represented the white 
man' the red horse represented the Indian, the 
speckled horse represented the different colors of 
the negro race. A wise man is one who fears the 
true and living God — the God that speaks to the 
sun, and the sun obeys; that speaks to the moon, 
and the moon obeys; that speaks to the sea, and 
the sea obeys; that speaks to death, and death 
obeys. 

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LABOR STRIKES ALL OVER THE LAND. 



CHAPTER XVI. 

Whenever there is anything going on among 
God's people the Devil is always at hand. When 
Zechariah saw, in his vision, Joshua standing with 
an angel before the Lord, he saw the Devil stand- 
ing there also, ready to resist Joshua. (See Ze- 
chariah, 3d chapter, 1st verse.) "And he showed 
me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel 
of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand 
to resist him. And the Lord said unto Satan, The 
Lord rebuke thee, 0 Satan; even the Lord that 
hath chosen Jerusalem, rebuke thee: is not this a 
brand plucked out of the fire? " When Jesus comes 
to the earth to claim his people the Devil will be 
there, also, to claim his people, and will resist 
against many. Lay down your weapons and quit 
fighting for the Devil. In all of the civilized 
nations of the earth laborers are continually striking 
for higher wages. The Devil has got more people 
employed than any business man, or men, on earth. 
The wages he pays are death and destruction. The 
ministers of the gospel, servants of God, and Jesus 
Christ, the master workman of Heaven and earth, 
are appealing to the workmen to strike on the 
Devil. God wants the strike made general all over 

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THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS. 



the land. Quit work with the Devil and go to work 
in God's army. There was a certain rich man that 
was working for the Devil on the building called 
Hell. (See Luke, 16th chapter and 19th verse.) 
There came a poor beggar, named Lazarus, to his 
house and asked for the crumbs that fell from his 
table. The Devil told the rich man not to give 
Lazarus anything to eat — he is a servant of God: 
let God feed him. The rich man — a servant of the 
Devil — refused to let Lazarus eat the crumbs that 
fell from his table. Lazarus died and God sent an 
angel after him, the angel taking Lazarus to Heaven 
and there let him rest from his troubles on the 
bosom of Abraham. By and by the rich man died 
and the Devil sent an angel after him. The angel 
of the Devil told the rich man that he had been a 
good servant for the Devil and he would now take 
him to their pit, the office of hell. And the angel 
of the Devil took the rich man to the pit and in- 
troduced him to all of the Devil's angels. The 
Devil told the rich man that he had been a good 



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THE RICH MAN'S POSITION. 



and faithful servant while on earth and he would 
now give him a position in his office, and the Devil 
gave him a job firing the furnace in the pit. The 
rich man did not like his job — it was too hot for 
him — and he wanted to resign, but the Devil told 
him he could not resign. "While on earth you 
were my servant, now you are my slave." Then 
the rich man looked up and saw Lazarus in Heaven^ 
enjoying life in Heaven like he, the rich man, had 
enjoyed life on earth. So he called to Abraham to 
let Lazarus come there with water and cool him, 
but Abraham would not let Lazarus go to him. 
Then he wanted Abraham to let Lazarus go to the 
earth and tell his brothers to quit work for the 
Devil. Abraham told him that they had Moses 
and the prophets; let them hear them. But the 
rich man and his brothers were like the people of 
Asia that would not listen to the preaching of Paul, 
but worshipped their idol gods. Whatever you wor- 
ship, that is your god. If you worship your wealth, 
that is your God. 



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THE GREAT GODDESS DIANA 



CHAPTER XVII. 



See Acts, 19th chapter, 24th verse, which reads 
thus: " A certain man named Demetrius, a silver- 
smith, who made silver shrines for Diana, brought 
no small gain unto the craftsmen, whom he called 
together with the workmen of like occupation, and 
said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our 
wealth. Moreover, ye see and hear that not alone 
at Ephesus, but almost throughout Asia, this Paul 
hath persuaded and turned away many people, say- 
ing that they be no gods which are made with 
hands. So not only this our craft is in danger to 
be set at naught, but also that the temple of the 
great goddess Diana should be dispised, and her 
magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia 
and the world worshipeth. And when they heard 
these sayings, they were full of wrath and cried 
out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians. 
And the whole city -was filled with confusion; and 
having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of 
Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they 



A YOUNG MAN FAST ASLEEP. 



rushed with one accord into the theatre. Some 
cried one thing and some another, for the 
assembly was confused. And while Paul was 
preaching with great power, a young man in the 
assembly went fast to sleep, sitting in a window, and 
fell out of the window and was killed. (See Acts, 
20th chapter, 9th verse.) While our ministers of 
to-day are preaching with great power there are 
many that go fast to sleep. Wake up, young man ; 
wake up young lady, before you fall and lose your 
soul like that young man lost his life while asleep. 
That young man lived again, for Paul with the 
power of God, restored him to life again, but if you 
fall now, while asleep in your sins, your soul falls 
in the hands of the Devil and can not be restored 
to you again. It is true there are a great many 
would-be preachers. That is why so many go to 
sleep Many are called, but few are chosen. When 
an American citizen is elected President of the 



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THE TWELVE DISCIPLES THAT WERE CHOSEN. 



United States, one of the most important duties be 
has to perform is the making up of his cabinet. 
He calls many of his friends to his side, but few 
are chosen for his cabinet, for he always chooses the 
most competent ones for the places to be filled. 
When Christ chose his twelve disciples he chose 
the best men, for he knew the Devil would make 
an attempt to employ some of them. And as care- 
ful as Christ was in making the selection of his 
disciples the Devil was sharp enough to employ 
three of them, for Peter denied him, Judas be- 
trayed him, Thomas doubted him. The church is 
intrusted with doctrines of the Son of God and the 
proclamation of God's will concerning the people 
that are employed by the Devil and they must act 
according to their trust. Preachers should not 
preach what people do not like to hear, for that 
does not attract attention. They should preach 
what people like to hear — something that is inter- 
esting. If you fish with bait that fish do not like, 
you catch no fish. If the preachers and the church 



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THE RICH YOUNG MAX. 



people want to catch those employed by the Devil, 
they must preach sermons and sing songs that have 
some power in them, for the Devil makes things 
very attractive for his assemblies. Go to the thea- 
tres, go to the ballrooms, go to the saloons and 
gambling rooms, go to the beer gardens and you 
will find that the Devil makes it very interesting 
for his people. Preachers should preach God as a 
loving father and not as a demon. Many 
preachers are called, but not all chosen. When 
God chooses a man to preach he gives him spiritual 
power to preach. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



A rich young man went to Christ and asked him 
what good thing he could do to gain eternal life. 
(See Matthew, 19th chapter, 16th verse.) Christ 
told him to keep the ten commandments. He told 
Christ he had kept them all of his life. Then Christ 
told him if he be perfect, "Sell thy possesions and 
follow me," but the Devil was there in time to tell 
the young man not to do that. So he shook his 
head and went away to worship the Devil's god — 



THE PRINCE OF TYRUS. 



his wealth. That young man had figured up ac- 
count with God and thought the book of his heart 
was all right because he had kept the ten com- 
mandments, but when Christ went over the book 
of his heart he found him short in his account 
with God. The book of his heart showed that he 
was loaning his deeds to the Devil, by worshiping 
his wealth. Not only that young man is loaning 
his deeds to the Devil, but many to-day live an im- 
moral life. If the book of their heart were exam- 
ined, it would show they are short in their accounts 
with God. The Prince of Tyrus was a great man ; 
he was an upright man; he was a man that worked 
for God and a man that prospered in life and got to 
be very rich.. But alas! He went to work for the 
Devil on the building called Hell. He went so far 
as to call himself God and undertook to make all 
the people of Tyrus believe he was God. See Eze- 
kiel, 28th chapter, which reads thus: "Son of man 
say unto the Prince of Tyrus, thus saith the Lord 



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PEOPLE WHO FORGET THEIR CREATOR. 



God; because thine heart is lifted up, and thou 
hast said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in 
the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not 
God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of 
God: Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon 
thee; the terrible of the nations and they shall 
draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom." 
Although the Prince of Tyrus called himself God, 
the true and living God convinced him that he was 
not God. but only a man. There are many to day, 
while they are almost poverty stricken, consider 
themselves the same as any one else, but after they 
begin to prosper in life and get to be people of 
much wealth, they soon think themselves greater 
than anyone else, and like the Prince of Tyrus they 
soon forget the God that created them. They soon 
forget that I am the same as you. They soon for- 
get that death makes all persons equal. As Job 
said, "Man dieth and wasteth away; yea, man 
giveth up the ghost and where is he?" (See 14th 
chapter of Job, 10th verse.) 



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PAUL AND SILAS CAST IN PRISON. 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Paul and Silas were two wonderful preachers. 
They were men that traveled and preached the gos- 
pel, and they were men that preached with great 
power. They concluded to go to Macedonia and 
preach the word of God. When they arrived at 
Macedonia they started a revival of religion. They 
preached the word of God with much power, and 
many people were being converted to the religion 
of Jesus Christ. (See Acts, 16th chapter.) The 
Devil saw what great work Paul and Silas were 
doing for God and he concluded to start a revival 
of immorality. The Devil employed some of the 
people to make a complaint to the magistrate of 
the city against the doctrine that Paul and Silas 
were preaching. The people told the magistrate of 
the city: "These men do exceedingly trouble our 
city and teach customs which are not lawful for us 
to receive." (See Acts, 16th chapter, 20th verse ) 
The magistrate then ordered Paul and Silas whipped 
and placed in prison, and charged the jailer to keep 
them safely. But the jailer went fast to sleep and 

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THE JAILER CRIES "WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED? " 



while he was asleep God sent an earthquake that 
shook the jail so hard that all the doors flew open, 
and when the jailer awoke and saw the jail doors 
all open he thought his prisoners had all escaped, 
and started to commit suicide. Paul saw the jailer 
was about to take his own life and called to him to 
"Do thyself no harm, for we are all here." Then 
Paul and Silas went on preaching and praying with 
great power. The words they spoke touched the 
heart of the jailer and he cried out, 'Sirs, what 
must I do to he saved?" Paul said, " Believe in 
the Lord .Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." 
Tt is just the same with the Devil to-day as it was 
then. Wherever God's people start a revival of 
religion, the Devil and his angels go there also and 
start a revival of crimes and iniquities. And 
when the cries and shouts of praising the Lord go 
up from the church of God, the cries of thieving, 
robbing, murdering are going up from the Devil's 
camp outside. 



PUBLIC OPINION NOT ALWAYS RIGHT. 



Public opinion has said: Great is the Catholic 
Church! Great is the Methodist Church ! Great 
is the Baptist Church ! Great is the Presbyterian 
Church ! Great is the Campbellite Church ! Great is 
the Jewish Church! But publicopinion seemsto be 
against the style of the Salvation Army's ways of 
working for God; but public opinion is not always 
right. The Salvation Army Church— in their way 
— are doing a great work for God. They go to the 
camp of the Devil and fire off their gospel guns. 
They attract attention of the public by sounding 
their drums and blowing their horns, and they 
preach the gospel to that class of people who never 
go to any church — people who otherwise would 
not hear a word of God preached. They preach 
the gospel to those people who have forgot there 
is any church and have forgotten their creator, but 
when they see and Lear the Salvation Army march- 
ing on and singing and praying, it causes their 
minds to reflect back to their childhood days, when 
their mother took them to church with her. Army 
of God, march on ! 



DESERTERS OF THE ARMY OF GOD. 



CHAPTER XX. 



There are many deserters of God's army, but 
they will not admit that they are deserters like 
Achan did. (See 7th chapter of Joshua, 20th verse.) 
Achan admitted that he was a deserter of God's army 
when he said, "I have sinned against the Lord God 
of Israel thus, and thus have I done." When a 
soldier deserts the United States army, if captured 
lie is punished for desertion and is sometimes shot 
dead by the officers of the army. God punishes no 
person for deserting his army, for such persons pun- 
ish themselves, for God is love and not a demon. 
God said he will destroy the work of the Devil; he 
will tear down the building called Hell. (See Is- 
aiah, 24th chapter.) "Behold, the Lord maketh 
the earth empty and maketh it waste and turneth 
it upside down and scattereth abroad the inhabi- 
tants thereof, and ft shall be as with the people, so 
with the priest: as with the servant, so with his 
master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as 
with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the len- 
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YOUR DEEDS— YOU WILL KNOW THEM WHEN YOU 
SEE THEM. 



der, so with the borrower; as with the taker of 
usury, so with the giver of usury. To him, the land 
shall be utterly emptied and utterly spoiled, for the 
Lord hath spoken this word." Then if you are 
caught working for the Devil on the building called 
Hell you are punishing yourself. If you start to 
travel from San Francisco to Liverpool and pack 
your trunk with clothes and send it on ahead of 
you, when you get to Liverpool you expect to find 
your trunk and clothes just as you sent them and 
when you see them you know they are yours without 
anyone telling you so. While we are traveling 
from life to eternity, we are sending our deeds ahead 
of us and what do we expect to find when we are 
landed in eternity ? We will find our deeds just as 
we have sent them and when they confront us we 
will know them and God will know them also. 
(See Job, 34th chapter, 25th verse.) ' Therefore he 
knoweth their works and he overturneth them in 
the night so that they are destroyed." Have prin- 
ciples of right by which to live. 



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IMMEDIATE PUNISHMENT NOT POSSIBLE. 



CHAPTER XXL 



There are many people in this great round 
world who apprehend that there is immediate 
punishment for the wicked who expire, but such 
can not possibly be the case. If such were the 
case there would be no need of a judgment day. 
Ministers of the gospel sometimes preach imme- 
diate punishment, but surely no sensible person can 
believe such to be the case. It does not seem pos- 
sible that people who disobey the law of God would 
be sent to a place of punishment when they expire 
and then be called out to be judged and then sent 
back again. No, such is not the case. There are 
no courts of justice that punish people for crimes 
before they have been tried and found guilty. See 
the 21st chapter of Job, 30th and 32d verses, which 
read: "The wicked is reserved to the day of de- 
struction ; they shall be brought forth to the day 
of wrath. Yet shall he be brought to the grave 
till the day of destruction." As a caterpillar lies 
in his indwelling till nature changes his form to a 
butterfly, so shall the dead lay in their graves until 
they are called up to face their deeds that they sent 
ahead of them. 

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THE DEYTL THE GREATEST ROBBER ON EARTH. 



There are many people in this great deceiving 
world that care nothing about themselves or anyone 
else. There is nothing too bad for them to do. It 
sometimes seems strange why God lets such people 
live so long, for the Devil has complete control of 
them and they are detrimental and a pullback to 
the better class of people. People who labor 
strive hard to save their earnings and valuables 
'Torn such people, for they are thieves and robbers. 
People hide their valuables away in secret places 
and in banks for safety. But alas! The thieves 
break in and steal them — the bankers are some- 
times thieves themselves. But people don't seem 
to consider their soul of much value, for they make 
their soul the last thing that they strive to save. 
The Devil is the biggest thief and robber that ever 
walked on the face of the earth, for it is he who 
robs people of their soul. A thief may steal your 
valuables, but you have a chance to get more; but 
when the Devil steals your soul and gets possession 
of it you have no chance for another. Better hide 
your soul with the christian religion — the love of 
God. Notice the 1st chapter of Haggai, 2d verse: 
"Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This 
people say, The time is not come, the time that the 
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THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL. 



Lord s house should be built. Then came the word 
of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying, Is it 
time for you, 0 ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses? 
Consider your ways. And he that earneth wages, 
earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes." 
There is one thing that must be considered: That 
no man or woman ever gets so bad but that there 
is some good about them. No man or woman ever 
gets so bad but that they can be taken out of the 
hands of the Devil and be saved if the church of 
God does her duty. The laws of our country will 
not save them; neither will coercion save them; 
but kind words that never die and the love of God 
will. The power of the gospel will save such 
people. 

CHAPTER XXII. 

The devil hates the truth but loves a lie. He 
hates to see you work for God, but loves to see you 
work on the building called Hell with your sinful 
ways. The Devil was angry at Jeremiah when he 
preached the truth to the people of Judea, and the 
officers of that city put Jeremiah under arrest and 
they threatened to take his life for preaching against 
that wicked city. (See Jeremiah, 26th chapter, 
from the 4th to the 15th verse.) Jeremiah said 
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THE DEATH MESSENGER COMING. 



to the Devil's officers "As for me, behold, I am in 
your hand: do with me as seemeth good and meet 
unto you. But know ye for certain, that if ye put 
me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood 
upon yourselves, and upon this city." People that 
do the will of God bave nothing to fear. A man 
that commits a murder always trembles when he 
sees the officers approaching him, for he knows he 
has violated the laws of his country, and the first 
thought is to make his escape from the officers. 
But that is not the case with people who obey the 
law. When they see the officers coming they pay 
no attention to them, for they know they have vio- 
lated no law People who work for the Devil with 
their crimes of immorality, always fear the death 
messenger when he comes with a warrant for their 
arrest. They tremble with fear, for they know they 
have disobeyed the law of God. But not so with 
those who serve the Lord. When the death mes- 
senger comes to summon them they can say, wel- 
come, death, for they know that they have obeyed 
the law of God and have kept the faith, so they 
have nothing to fear. 

Governor Chase, once Governor of Indiana, 
while lying upon his bed of affliction, his body all 

tortured with pain, when the doctor looked at his 
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THE ANGELS EXAMINED, BUT NONE FOUND WORTHY. 



watch, and said, "Governor, you had better straighten" 
up your business, for the end is near at hand.'" The 
Governor said, "My business is all straight; I am 
ready; I want to show sinners how a christian can 
die." Keep your books straight with God, like Gov- 
ernor Chase, and you, too, can show sinners how a 
christian can die. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 

Before God destroyed the Devil's building with 
the flood he chose one from the earth to warn the 
people to stop work on the Devil's building, but they 
did not take warning, and since the flood people with 
their wickedness have been just as busy for the 
Devil as they were before. And God again opened 
one of the windows of Heaven and looked down to 
the earth and saw the Devil's work going on \vith 
such rapidness, he concluded to once more condemn 
the building and warn the people of their danger in 
working on the building called Hell. God knew 
that it would take someone greater than Noah or 
Moses or any of the old prophets, for the Devil's 
work was very great, and it would require a very 
great person to warn the people of their danger. 
God searched the earth for some person that was 
worthy to save the people, but none were found 
worthy. Then God examined all of the angels in 
Heaven, but none were found worthy to send. Jesus 
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THE LIGHT SHONE ALL OVER THE EARTH. 



Christ, the son of God, said " Father, prepare me a 
body and I will go down to the earth and condemn 
the Devil's building and warn the people of their 
danger. *' And God said to Christ, his son | see 
Psalms. 2d chapter. 7th and 8th verses), "I will de- 
clare the decree: thou art my son; this day have I 
begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the 
heathen for thine inheritance. • and the uttermost 
parts of the earth for thy possession." (See Isaiah. 
2d chapter, -4th verse.) "And he shall judge among 
the nations, and shall rebuke many people: nation 
shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall 
they learn war any more." In our great cities of 
America people think it a great thing when one man 
can stand in the electric power house and touch the 
electric button and the lights shine all over the city. 
So it is very great. But it was great, indeed, when 
Christ was ready to come to the earth. God touched 
the electric button in Heaven and the light shone all 
over the earth. (See the 9th chapter of Isaiah. 2d 
verse.) "The people that walked in darkness have 
seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the 
shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined." 
When the people of this earth were told of the 
coming of the Savior, they talked about it one to the 



JESUS BORN AND HIS LIFE ENDANGERED. 



other. (See Isaiah. 25th chapter, 9th verse.) ''And 
it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we 
have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the 
Lord; we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.*' 
When the young child Jesus was born great precau- 
tion was taken to protect his life from those who 
might seek to destroy it, for the Devil knew that 
Jesus was coming to condemn the building called 
Hell, and he made it his business to employ someone 
to take the life of the young child Jesus. So he em- 
ployed King Herod to have the young child Jesus 
destroyed. (See 2d chapter of Matthew. 1st verse.) 
"Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea 
in the days of Herod the King, behold, there came 
wise men from the eas.t to Jerusalem, saying. Where 
is he that is born King of the Jews ? When Herod 
the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and 
all Jerusalem with him." God knew the Devil 
would seek to destroy Jesus before he could fulfill 
the purpose he came for, and sent an angel to tell 
Joseph to take the child and his mother and flee to 
Egypt. (See 13th verse.) ' 'Behold, the angel of 
the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, 
Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and 
flee into Egypt. When he arose, he took the young 



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child and his mother and departed into Egypt.'" 
(See 16th verse of same chapter.) "Then" Herod, 
when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, 
was exceedingly wroth, and sent forth, and slew all 
the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all 
the coasts thereof."' 



CHAPTEK XXIV. 



And when Jesus grew old enough he went to 
work. He examined the building called Hell from 
its very foundation and warned the people of the 
danger of the Devil's building. (See 6th chapter of 
Matthew, 24th verse, and the 7th chapter of Mat- 
thew, from the 24th to 27th verses.) "]No man can 
serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, 
and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, 
and despise the other. Ye can not serve God and 
mammon. Therefore whosoever heareth these say- 
ings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto 
a wise man. which built his house up >n a rock. And 
the rain descended, and the floods came, and the 
winds blew, and beat upun the house; and it fell 
not: for it was founded upon a rock. And everyone 
that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them 
not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built 
his house upon the sand: and the rain descended, 
and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat 
upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall 
of it." It is absolutely true that those who are help- 
ing the Devil to build up his building called Hell 
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are setting a trap to be caught in themselves, for the 
Devil's building is undoubtedly being built upon the 
sand. And when the storm of God's wrath comes 
upon it, it will fall, and great will be the fall of it. 
In this nineteenth century people who are erecting 
buildings are putting them up fireproof, and those 
that are not fireproof are kept heavily insured, to 
protect their property from being a total loss should 
it burn. (See 1st Corinthians, 3d chapter, from the 
9th to the 13th verses.) It reads thus: "We are 
laborers together with God: ye are God's hus- 
bandry, ye are God's building. According to the 
grace of God which is given unto me. as a wise mas- 
terbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another 
buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how 
he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can 
no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 
Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the 
day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by 
fire; and the fire shall try every man's work, of what 
sort it is." While we are working our way from 
this earth to eternity we are either working for God. 
or for the Devil, building up crimes of wickedness. 
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sure it; he will give you a policy of love and kind- 
ness. Then he wants you to keep your souFinsured 
by faith and humble prayer, for your building will 
be examined from its foundation. (See Micab, 1st 
chapter, 6th verse.) God said, '-I will pour down 
the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover 
the foundation thereof. 



CHAPTER XXY. 



Whenever the Devil sees any person doing great 
work for God he does everything possible to stop the 
progress of such work. John the Baptist was a 
very great man and a powerful preacher; he did a 
great work for God. He brought many souls to re- 
pentance by the power of his preaching. The De- 
vil saw the great work he was doing for God and 
said to his angels. "We must put a stop to that man."' 
But the question with the Devil was, how to stop 
John the Baptist. The Devil said to his angels, "It 
is just as easy to employ woman to use as a tool as it 
was in the Garden of Eden. I will employ a wo- 
man to stop John the Baptist, and the Devil went to 
Jerusalem and there he employed two women to stop 
the work of John the Baptist, by having him be- 
headed. The Devil knew that Adam could not re- 
sist the temptation of Eve, his wife. So did he know 
that King Herod could not resist the temptation of his 

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wife-. (See Mark. 6th chapter. 22d to 28th verses, i 
i4 And when the daughter of said Herodias came in. 
and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat 
with him. the king said unto the damsel, ask of me 
whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it to thee. 
And he swore unto her, whatsoever thou shalt ask of 
me. I will give it to thee, unto the half of my king- 
dom. And she went forth, and said unto her 
mother, what shall I ask? And she said, the head 
of John the Baptist. And she came in straightway 
with haste unto the king, and asked, saying. [ will 
that thou give me by and by in a charger the head 
of John the Baptist. And the king was exceedingly 
sorry; yet for bis oath's sake, and for their sake> 
which sat with him, he would not reject her. And im- 
mediately the king sent an executioner, and command- 
ed his head to be brought : and he went and beheaded 
him in the prison. And brought his head in a charger 
and gave it to the damsel; and the damsel gave it to 
her mother." It makes no difference to the Devil who 
you be. whether you are a man or woman, or whe- 
ther you be a saint or angel, or whether it be the 
Lord himself, he will employ you if he can. After 
Jesus had been baptized, the Devil made a deter- 
mined effort to employ him to help build up the 

building called Hell, for he knew if he could capture 

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Jesus Christ he would have captured the greatest 
general that ever led an army; and he knew if he 
could capture Jesus he would have the whole world 
captured. But Jesus had a great duty to perform — a 
duty that no man or woman or angel in heaven 
could perform and he did not propose to be trapped 
by the Devil, although the Devil offered him the 
whole world if he would only serve him. But 
Jesua refused. (See Matthew. 4th chapter. 8th to 
10th verses.) "Again, then the Devil taketh him up 
into an exceedingly high mountain, and showeth him 
all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of 
them; And saith unto him. all these things will I 
give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 
Then saith Jesus unto him. get thee hence, Satan : 
for it is written. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy 
God. and him only shalt thou serve.*" This day, 
while some people are striving hard to do right, the 
Devil is offering great things of this world to get 
them to do wivng, but when you are tempted by the 
Devil t<» do wrong you should remember the words 
that Jesus said t<» him when he was tempted and 
what you should say when you are tempted : the 
Lord thy G<>d only shalt thou serve. 



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CHAPTER XXYI. 



When Jesus came to the earth, he came to ex- 
amine the work of the Devil and to save this great 
world of people from "being caught in the trap set by 
the Devil and his angels, and Jesus did his work and 
did it well and he is now preparing to come again. 
This time he is coming to destroy the work of the 
Devil. He will destroy the building called 
Hell. When he does arrive he will first give com- 
mand to the angel of God to stamp the tickets of his 
people, that the gospel train may take them away 
from the falling building. See 7th chapter of Reve- 
lations, 3d verse, which reads thus : "Hurt not the 
earth, neither the. seas, till we have sealed the ser- 
vants of our God in their foreheads." If you intend 
to go on the gospel train with Jesus on that day. y<>u 
had better get your ticket now; don't wait till the 
train arrives; it might be too late to get it stamped. 
Little Noble Brown, a little colored boy at Indian- 
apolis, Ind., while dying, called to his mamma to 
get her ticket. He said, "Get your ticket, mamma; 
get your ticket, for the train is coming and you will 
get left." His mamma could not go with him. but 
she has her ticket and will be with her boy when the 
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gospel train takes her army home. Get your ticket 
and be ready to leave this building before Jesus 
destroys it, for it will be an awful time when the 
Devil's building falls. (See 20th chapter of Job, 
26th and 27th verses.) "All darkness shall be hid in 
his secret places, a lire not blown shall consume him. 
It shall £0 ill with him that's left. In his taber- 
nacle the heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the 
earth shall rise up against him. The increase 
of his house shall depart and his goods shall flow 
away in the day of his wrath." The readers of this 
book may differ in opinion from the auther of it, but if 
the bible be correct, this earth will surely be turned 
into a burning hell at the end of time, when the 
Devil and his angels have finished their work: when 
the people on earth are done decapitating others; 
when the people on earth are done burning others at 
stake. Jesus will say to his father, as he said on the 
jcro«s,"Itis finished" — the Devil's work — the building- 
called Hell, is finished. God will say to his son. 
••Pass judgment on the building called Hell." 



THAT WHICH HE LABORED EOR SHALL HE RESTORE. 



(See 12th chapter of Daniel, 2d verse. | "Many of 
them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, 
some to everlasting life, and some to shame."' (See 
11th Psalm, 6th verse.) "Upon the wicked he shall 
rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tem- 
pest: this shall be the portion of their cup." 



They will look all around — 

They will see the world burning*. 

The Devil will tell them it is the building 

called Hell. 
Then they will stand, all in a wonder, 
But they can not exactly tell 
Until they hear the rattling trumpet 
And their hearts begin to swell. 
Then men will he swearing — 
Women will be weeping — 
They worked for the Devil on the building 

called Hell. 



See 20th chapter of Job, 18th verse. -That 
which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not 
swallow it down: according to his substance shall 
the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein." 



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